The international conference « Families and kinship in the face of environmental upheavals: mutations and resistances? » takes place in Marseille on June 5, 2023, at the EHESS Campus Marseille under the scientific coordination of Pierre-Yves Wauthier (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS) and Florence Weber (Centre Maurice Halbwachs – INES/ENS axis).
Kinship interactions happen in relation to a broader political and economic context of society’s relationship with the environment. Family and kinship practices associate matters of human reproduction with forms of solidarity, reciprocity and transmission of material and symbolic resources between people who think of themselves as families or act as families. In various parts of the world, the adaptation of local populations to the transformations of their environment has directly affected the kinship practices, sometimes destructuring traditional gender and generation logics. Elsewhere, kinship ties have acted as recourse against anthropogenic transformations of the environment. In a contemporary Europe in environmental Transition, some individual life courses are being driven by ecological ideals, solastalgia or eco-anxiety. Some people hesitate to have children; others, driven by a more or less positive vision of the future, gather together in small back-to-the-land communities or in shared urban residences, rethinking interpersonal solidarities, reciprocities and transmissions.
The event aims to draw the threads of the thematic and disciplinary stakes of the study of families and kinship in the face of environmental upheavals and Transition policies. First, historians and anthropologists discuss past and present transformations. Then, ethno-socio-demographic perspectives are crossed on more specific questions, such as childhood, birth rates, residential buildings, health and agronomy.
Location
EHESS Campus Marseille, Centre Norbert Elias, 2, rue de la Charité, 13002 Marseille, France.
Participation
The number of places available is limited. In order to promote fluidity and density of the exchanges, the event takes place in person only. The presentations will be recorded and available online (subject to the consent of the speakers). Information and registration: pierre-yves.wauthier@ehess.fr
Programme
8:30 a.m.
Opening of the doors and coffee
9 a.m.
Introduction
Agnès Martial (Centre Norbert Elias/CNRS) and Pierre-Yves Wauthier (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS)
Historical perspectives
9:15 a.m.
Développement économique, famille et environnement dans l’Occident latin au Moyen Age (IXe-XIIIe)
Laurent Feller (LAMOP/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
9:45 a.m.
Famille et travail dans les missions jésuites du Paraguay (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) et dans la communauté guarani mbya de Kokuere Guazú (XXIe siècle) : perspectives croisées
Mickaël Orantin (CREDA/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3)
The making of society in territories in crisis
10:15
La mangrove et la liberté : faire famille à Bahia (Nord-Est du Brésil)
Joao Pina Cabral (Instituto de Ciencias Sociais/Universidade de Lisboa)
10:45
Les familles rurales de Jendouba face au Code forestier : un Léviathan
Sofiane Bouhdiba (Département de sociologie/Université de Tunis 2)
Coffee break 11:15 – 11:30
11:30
Rural families facing environmental degradation in Central Asia’s cotton oases: Soviet legacies and new challenges
Tommaso Trevisani (DAAMS/Università Degli Studi di Napoli « L’Orientale »)
12:00
Famille, genre et changements environnementaux au Burkina Faso
Anne Attané (GRIL/IRD)
12:30
Past-present dialogue; questions/answers about the session
Chaired and discussed by Laura Centemeri (CEMS/CNRS)
Lunch break on location 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Environmental precariousness and economic survival (thematic session)
2:15 p.m.
Des crises environnementales aux effets sur les maisonnées : stratégies de survie économique auprès de communautés fragilisées au Bangladesh
Jean-Marc Goudet (Centre Population et Développement/Université de Paris/IRD)
2:35 p.m.
Faire familles dans des domiciles aux pieds d’argiles : continuités et changements face à l’adaptation climatique
Sophie Nemoz (Laboratoire de Sociologie et d’Anthropologie/Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté)
2:55 p.m.
Familles monoparentales face à la précarité énergétique
Suzanne de Cheveigné (Centre Norbert Elias/CNRS)
3:15 p.m.
Cooperation between social scientists, engineers and health workers; questions/answers about the session
Chaired and discussed by Pierre-Yves Wauthier (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS)
Coffee break 3:35 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Natality and childhood (parallel thematic session)
3:50 p.m.
« Les petits sauvageons d’ici » : enfance et modes de vie ruraux alternatifs
Jean Autard (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS)
4:10 p.m.
Désirer – ou non – un enfant comme forme d’égoïsme : un enjeu particulier dans le cadre des bouleversements environnementaux ?
Manon Vialle (UR14/INED)
4:30 p.m.
Reconfiguration de la famille face à la crise environnementale où comment refuser la parentalité au nom de l’écologie
Mélanie Bania (Groupe de recherches sociologiques sur les sociétés contemporaines/Université de Limoges)
4:50 p.m.
Ethnographic-demographic dialogue
Chaired, and discussed by Agnès Martial (Centre Norbert Elias/CNRS)
Ecology and agriculture in France (parallel thematic session)
3:50 p.m.
Devenir agriculteur biologique, à distance de sa famille
Madlyne Samak (LISST/CERS/Institut national universitaire Champollion)
4:10 p.m.
Quels nouveaux modèles de parenté pour accéder aux terres agricoles dans un contexte de concentration capitalistique ?
Laz Brulé Kopp (CMH/ENS)
4:30 p.m.
Une révolution familiale des pratiques d’élevage
Théo Boulakia (CMH/ENS)
4:50 p.m.
Ethnography-agronomy dialogue
Chaired, and discussed by Valeria Siniscalchi (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS)
Closing session and questions/answers
5:10 p.m.
Parallel session report, « Natality and childhood”
Agnès Martial (Centre Norbert Elias/CNRS)
5:20 p.m.
Parallel session report, « Ecology and agriculture in France”
Valeria Siniscalchi (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS)
5:30 p.m.
General exchange and synthesis
Pierre-Yves Wauthier (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS) and Florence Weber (CMH/ENS)
End at 6:30 p.m.
Scientific board
Eve Bureau-Point (Centre Norbert Elias/CNRS)
Laura Centemeri (Centre d’étude sur les mouvements sociaux/EHESS)
Natacha Collomb (Centre Norbert Elias/CNRS)
Agnès Martial (Centre Norbert Elias/CNRS)
Valeria Siniscalchi (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS)
Pierre-Yves Wauthier (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS)
Florence Weber (Centre Maurice Halbwachs/ENS)